Access Networking for Carrier Ethernet

Today’s service-enabling, high-bandwidth networks demand provisioning, monitoring, fault isolation, troubleshooting and remote management tools that have long been deemed crucial in traditional, business-class WAN transport services. While Carrier Ethernet is being increasingly used as the unifying delivery service, increased geographic reach is far more likely to depend on multiple carriers and technologies. Multiple streams of concurrent voice, video, data and wireless services are required to be delivered over different transport networks. Though Carrier Ethernet is an excellent medium for service convergence and provides an effective foundation for optimizing total cost of ownership, effective management across the service delivery lifecycle can get unwieldy, if unchecked.